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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Chapter 609 — Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights

§ 60905. Subsequent reviews

Statutory text

(a)

Case file review

If a review under subsection (a) case file 1 regarding a cold case murder is conducted and a conclusion is reached not to conduct a full reinvestigation, no additional case file review shall be required to be undertaken under this chapter with respect to that cold case murder for a period of five years, unless there is newly discovered, materially significant evidence. An agency may continue an investigation absent a designated person’s application.

(b)

Full reinvestigation

If a full reinvestigation of a cold case murder is completed and a suspect is not identified at its conclusion, no additional case file review or full reinvestigation shall be undertaken with regard to that cold case murder for a period of five years beginning on the date of the conclusion of the reinvestigation, unless there is newly discovered, materially significant evidence.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act of 2021

    Pub. L. 117–164 § 6 · 136 Stat. 1358

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 60905

    (Pub. L. 117–164, § 6, Aug. 3, 2022, 136 Stat. 1359.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 117–164, § 6, Aug. 3, 2022, 136 Stat. 1359.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 6. SUBSEQUENT REVIEWS. (a) Case File Review.— If a review under subsection (a) case file regarding a cold case murder is conducted and a conclusion is reached not to conduct a full reinvestigation, no additional case file review shall be required to be undertaken under this Act with respect to that cold case murder for a period of five years, unless there is newly discovered, materially significant evidence. An agency may continue an investigation absent a designated person’s application. (b) Full Reinvestigation.— If a full reinvestigation of a cold case murder is completed and a suspect is not identified at its conclusion, no additional case file review or full reinvestigation shall be undertaken with regard to that cold case murder for a period of five years beginning on the date of the conclusion of the reinvestigation, unless there is newly discovered, materially significant evidence.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 117–164, § 6, , 136 Stat. 1359.)

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